Tag: Pedagogy
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Your Students Aren’t Lazy. Their Brains Are Being Rewired
For thirty years, I’ve worked at the experimental edge of education, music, and technology. I’ve built systems, taught in classrooms from conservatoires to communities of ex-addicts, and fought to fix a model that I knew, intuitively, was failing the very people it was meant to serve. But today, the quiet hum of dysfunction has become…
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The Last Human Teacher: A Survival Guide to the Age of AI and the TikTok Brain
There are moments in the classroom when you look at the faces of your students, then at the lesson plan in your hands, and you are struck by a profound and unsettling feeling: I am the last human in the room. You are the last one defending the slow, messy, and beautiful work of deep…
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AI Isn’t a Tool for School. It’s the End of School As We Know It
For over 150 years, the education system has operated on a simple, industrial-age promise: follow our curriculum, earn the qualification, and you will be prepared for the world of work. That promise is now broken. And artificial intelligence is the catalyst that makes this truth undeniable. We are not at the beginning of a minor…
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So, You Think You Can Teach Transformation? My Gloriously Unplanned Masterclass and an AI We’re Coercing Into Usefulness.
Let’s be brutally honest: the term “masterclass” has been inflated to the point of near meaninglessness. It often promises a neatly packaged epiphany, delivered by an oracle, usually in exchange for a sum that could sponsor a minor research grant. A few days ago, I helmed something that, by some accident of scheduling, also carried…